Monday, March 24, 2014

The Interpretive Anthropology of Football and Crazy Fans.

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Growing up in the rural mountains of Tennessee you learn pretty quick that football isn’t just a sport, it’s a religion. From a young age I...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

White and the Rational Individual

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We all understand White as a cultural ecologist who found inspiration in Spencer and Morgan’s evolutionary theories. While White was a dist...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

My Not So Fun St. Patty's Day

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I’m Irish, and I am proud of it. My aunt lived in Ireland for nearly twenty years, and when I visited her in Dublin, I too, fell in lov...
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Friday, March 7, 2014

The Life and Times of Capt. James Cook

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          Imagine yourself as a Naval Officer in the British Royal Navy with the name James Cook. You’re an experienced explorer with the r...
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A Reflection on Marshall Sahlins

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Marshall Sahlins was an American anthropologist heavily influenced by Levi-Strauss’s French structuralism. His excerpt from his book Isl...
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Levi – Strauss: So good he got two names

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In order to found an entire field of thought, one must have a certain je ne sais quoi, and Claude Levi – Strauss certainly had it. He is r...
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Hannah double dipped the chip

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When studying the Structuralist, Levi-Strauss emphasizes the arbitrariness of the individual tale at face value and disco...
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